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Battle of Britain Day B-listers flypast
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monkeyssalad-blog · 6 days ago
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Salon de Locomotion Aerienne, 1909 Grand Palais Paris by Chris Protopapas Via Flickr: Found this amazing photo on Wikipedia and could not resist posting it here. Public Domain.
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nelc · 3 months ago
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Fiat G.91
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nocternalrandomness · 1 year ago
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Fiat G.91 Attack Aircraft of the Portuguese Air Force 301 Sqdn “Jaguars” on display at the BA5 Monte Real Open Day
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roskirambles · 1 year ago
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(Archive) Animated movie of the day: Porco Rosso (Kurenai no Buta, 1992)
Originally posted: January 9th, 2022 So, Hayao Miyazaki turned 81 a few days ago, years he has used very well. His contributions to the world of animation aren't short, and his work in Ghibli is very well celebrated. But for all the love Howl's Moving Castle, My Neighbor Totoro, Princess Mononoke and Ponyo get, some of his other work seems to be overlooked by comparison. Which is a shame, I'd argue some of these not so celebrated films are even better than a least one or two of the aforementioned entries, not in short because they showcase the man's passions much better.
It should be no secret that Miyazaki loves classical cinema and aviation. With with a little more attention it also comes to light he loves pigs as well, and given his preference for Fiat cars, Italy is on the list too. What does this film have? All of those things, intertwined in an immaculate slow burn of a period piece set in 1929 in the Adriatic sea. Save for some details (like misspellings of the Italian text), EVERYTHING is pretty much period accurate. The costumes, the geography of the locations, the politics of the time, the weaponry, the way cartoons look. It's powerfully immersive. Some values and prejudices are also period accurate though, but given the generational gap the film is set in this is a deliberate and well handled choice.
It uses it's setting to the fullest when exploring it's characters(Porco is easily Miyazaki's most flawed protagonist, but he's still such a lovable, sincere, and self aware fellow), evokes an elegant sense of longing for a bygone era, and even sets a precedent for a very particular motif Miyazaki would explore later down his career, such as presenting the afterlife as a place full of planes. A mellow and romantic tale involving people scarred by war, guilt, loss, acceptance, blossoming love, compassion and being true to oneself. It's really needing of more love that it gets, it's in my eyes one Miyazaki's best works.
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mirrorreview · 4 hours ago
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Fun Facts About FIAT You Didn’t Know
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Did you know that FIAT’s name is an abbreviation? Or that it once sold luxury cars in America, including models like the Type 56? Explore these and other intriguing facts about the iconic Italian car brand. FIAT was also involved in aviation, producing a fighter plane during World War II, and it had a racing track on the roof of its factory in Turin. Even though the company is now part of Stellantis, its legacy in both the automotive and aviation industries continues to impress. Learn more in this fascinating blog!
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rohanisblog · 15 days ago
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Industrial Gears Market Forecast: 4.2% CAGR from 2025 to 2033
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Ford
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Eaton
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cruger2984 · 1 month ago
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THE DESCRIPTION OF THE TRANSLATION OF THE HOLY HOUSE OF LORETO Feast Day: December 10
"Loreto, after Nazareth, is the ideal place to pray while meditating on the mystery on the Incarnation of the Son of God." -Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI
Loreto is a charming hill town of some 10,000 inhabitants in the central Italian region known as the Marches. It is famed throughout the world for the Holy House of the Virgin Mary of Nazareth. Bordering the Adriatic Sea, it has been an important pilgrimage destination for nearly eight centuries.
The Holy House is enclosed within ornate, Renaissance-era marble beneath a large basilica, also built during the Renaissance.
The House itself consists of three walls of stacked stones. It is believed that Mary grew up and the Annunciation took place within these walls.
The House is now used as a chapel. Toward the front is a stone altar, known as the 'Altar of the Apostles.' Along with an ancient plate, these relics arrived in Loreto together with the Holy House.
So how did Mary's House end up in Loreto? In order to answer that question, it is necessary to visit Nazareth.
Today in Nazareth there is another important basilica — the Basilica of the Annunciation. Built over a grotto, this is believed to be the site where Mary was visited by the Archangel Gabriel and gave her Fiat — her consent to conceive, bear a son and name him Jesus.
The Basilica of the Annunciation is the largest church in the Middle East. The actual church is modern, consecrated as recently as 1969. However, the site has a long history. Archaeologists have determined there are the ruins of four other churches beneath and around the grotto. A good guide will point out the remnants of the previous churches.
First, a small synagogal basilica, dating back to the 2nd or 3rd century AD, was built around the cave. Next, in the 5th century during the Byzantine period and the era of Emperor Constantine and his mother, Helena, a larger basilica was built. This church was destroyed in the 7th century after the Muslim conquest of Palestine.
After the Crusaders reestablished a Christian kingdom in the 12th century, they rebuilt a larger basilica on the same site. However, this church, too, destroyed in 1260 by Sultan Baybars and the Mamluk army.
Finally, during a period of calm, the Franciscans rebuilt the church in the 18th century. This was expanded into the current Basilica of the Annunciation that pilgrims visit in Nazareth today.
Given the long history at the grotto in Nazareth, it is clear that there was devotion to it as the home of Mary and site of the Annunciation from at least the 2nd century onward. It is very likely, however, that there was a monument or marker at the grotto and House even in apostolic times. Since devotion to Mary dates back to biblical times, sites relating to her life would have been protected and considered holy.
So, how did the walls get to Loreto? For many centuries, tradition held that angels miraculously carried the Holy House from Nazareth to Loreto in 1294. This is attested to by numerous artistic depictions in and around the Holy House of flying angels carrying the House.
This tradition is celebrated during the feast of the 'Translation of the Holy House' on this date. Every year, the faithful gather in the square in front of the basilica on December 9.
Late at night a bonfire is lit, symbolizing a type of 'navigational beacon' that guided the angels to Loreto on that night.
For this reason, Our Lady of Loreto was proclaimed patroness of aviators. Pilots returning home after World War I asked Pope Benedict XV for a patron. On March 24, 1920, he assigned them Our Lady of Loreto. The first centenary was recently celebrated.
Others speculate that the Holy House of Loreto, like many relics from the Holy Land, was brought to Italy by ship at the conclusion of the Crusades. This was not uncommon, as the relics of St. Mark’s in Venice, St. Nicholas in Bari and St. Andrew in Amalfi were all brought by Crusaders to Italy during this period.
In the early 1900s, a priest and papal archivist was studying Vatican documents when he discovered a ledger detailing items that were brought out of the Holy Land during the period of the Crusades.
The sanctuary of Loreto is a place of prayer. It is documented that at least 150 saints and blessed have made a pilgrimage to the Holy House in Loreto. Their names are inscribed in a marble tablet upon entrance to the basilica.
The Holy House is also a site of miracles and conversions. Testifying to graces received are displays of gifts and 'ex-voto' medals given to the church by the faithful out of gratitude for blessings received through the intercession of Our Lady of Loreto.
Further, today a commission of doctors meets regularly in Loreto to study reports of miraculous healings. The commission functions similar to the one in Lourdes. Some have been determined indeed miraculous and 'not of natural origin.'
Source: National Catholic Register
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usafphantom2 · 1 month ago
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Fiat CR.42 Falco at the @RAFMUSEUM, London. #ww2
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peakwealth · 1 year ago
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THE YEAR 2023
"Without facts you can't have truth. Without truth you can't have trust. Without all three, we have no shared reality, and democracy as we know it - and all meaningful endeavours - are dead."
Maria Ressa (Filipina journalist and Nobel peace prize winner in 2021)
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Défilé du 14 juillet, Champs Elysées, Paris, 2023. President Emmanuel Macron, center, is surrounded by a cavalry guard for security reasons during the French national day parade. France has been edging towards democratic ungovernability. Macron himself has used to politically charged term 'décivilisation'. (Public broadcast screengrab)
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1. Just recently, I was sitting on a Ryanair flight to Copenhagen, squeezed into a seat I did not want on an aircraft that was as packed as ever. I wasn't alone, one of the many millions flying commercially that day. Ryanair alone 'uplifts' half a million passengers a day.
Even if airline travel remains a relatively small chunk of the global economy -- after all 99,8 % of the world's population are NOT flying on any given day -- it keeps growing quickly, set to double in volume in the next twenty years or so. Driven by growing incomes and expectations across Asia and elsewhere, it will require many new airports (already being planned and built) and new airliners (ordered by the thousands in 2023). Pliots are in high demand. Airbus has even hinted it would like some public money to help develop new aircraft.
This scenario makes no sense at all to those who have figured out that homo sapiens is facing rapid climate failure and probable extinction. They want most economic activity to be scaled back in a hurry, including of course airline travel or any other travel for that matter. The (brilliant) French climate theoretician Jean-Marc Jancovici has calculated that sustainable air travel would average no more than four flights in a lifetime. Like taking the plane once every twenty years.
Navigating the frenzied airports I've been through this year - Istanbul being the most gargantuan - walking along endless corridors to find gate C 43 or was it D 56, it seems, well, hard to imagine. It is full blast ahead and future technology will solve our problems: sustainable aviation fuel, hydrogen, electric aircraft, whatever it takes to make the show go on.
Is human life on Earth doomed because we let greed run away from us? Because we could not make up our minds about how much prosperity was enough? Fixated on luxury, we left capitalism on autopilot, never asking ourselves where the sweet spot was between economic well-being, growth and sustainability.
The other day I found myself looking at a black and white photograph taken during the oil crisis of 1973. It showed a narrowish street in Amsterdam, lined with parked cars. What struck me was the modesty of the vehicles: Volkswagen Beetles, small Fiats, Opels, Citroëns. The biggest car to be seen was a Volvo 144. Compare that to today's imposing SUVs, BMWs and Mercedes. You could say that Europe has come a long way in those fifty years. Or you can reflect that we lived well at the time, we ate well, dressed well and the small cars actually got us from A to B just about as quickly as today's Audis. Except that our collective carbon footprint was much smaller then because our economic output was only half of what it is today.
It is therefore not unrealistic to think that at least half of today's economic output is, in rich countries at least, surplus to necessity. It is fat, procured through relentless growth which was made possible by fossil fuel. But only now can we see how the fat is killing us, how it is destroying our habitat at a rate most of us still have trouble comprehending.
In a recent Spanish survey, only 5 % of respondents cited climate change as their principal concern. That means that nineteen people out of twenty felt they had more pressing worries to deal with. It is hardly for lack of blunt evidence or formal warnings: like the coast of southern Spain is expected to run out of drinking water by the spring of 2024.
Who cares? What we call climate apathy is the belief that everything will work out in the end. Life goes on as ever - until it doesn't. The accumulation of plastics in the environment continues almost unchecked, nominal recycling notwithstanding. The French environment minister Christophe Béchu has warned that by 2050 there would be as much plastic in the oceans as fish.
Clearly, the prospects of a viable world by 2100 are receding. We are stuck on a trajectory of rapid warming and climatic chaos that cannot be halted or reversed in time. Is our planet entering the stage of palliative care?
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"As a nation, we can endure damaging policies for a four-year-term. But we cannot survive a president willing to terminate our Constitution."
Liz Cheney, former Republican Congresswoman, USA.
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2. Looking back at my year-end reviews of the last five or six years, I think: why bother? Every year I try to understand, however modestly, what is going on in the world around me, but nothing much seems to change. Fundamentally it is the same story: the twilight of the colonial world order, the slide into regressive populism, anthropogenic climate failure, the necrosis of democracy, the careless exhibition of inequality, anxiety about migration, etc.
The western world has been on the verge of a nervous breakdown for so long now, it just gets at little worse every year. More obesity, less literacy. Less restraint, more hysteria.
But is it really as bad as it looks? Back at the very beginning of 2017 I did a little experiment (*): I listed some of the political disasters in the making at the time, knife-edge situations on the darkening horizon of the twelve months ahead:
Kabul might fall to the Taliban
The islamophobic fabulist Geert Wilders might win the Dutch elections
Catalonia might secede from Spain
Marine le Pen might become the French president
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan would institute one-man rule in Turkey.
Donald Trump would seriously mess up.
Russia might invade one of the Baltic states
By the end of the year the anticipated disasters had NOT come to pass. My pessimism was not justified. But some were close calls, like the Catalan independence referendum (nixed in extremis by the Constitutional court and still casting a long shadow over Spanish politics today), while others, it turned out, were just a matter of time. In February of 2022 Russia invaded not the Baltics, but Ukraine. Donald Trump cheered on a coup d'état in January 2021. Kabul did fall to the Taliban later that year. Erdoğan defeated the opposition earlier this year and now effectively rules alone. And didn't Geert Wilders did just win the Dutch parliamentary elections?
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Capitalism has run its course. (Málaga, December 2023)
The world fell off a cliff when Donald Trump was elected in 2016. With Trump in the White House, democracy had become a spent force, a bad joke. If Trump is somehow re-elected in 2024, things are going to get a lot uglier.
Still, democracy has its moments. Thailand seemed set for a democratic aggiornamento this spring when the liberal opposition won the general elections. A victory of youth, decency and the values of an open society. Thailand had been waiting for it for a long, long time. But then the results were simply cancelled by the outgoing military junta. The old bumper sticker had come true: If elections could change anything, they would be illegal. The ruling class, backed by the army and the monarchy, declared the results illegal. And that was it. One might think that this is how revolutions start but Thailand has a long tradition of paternalism and denial of democratic fair play. It muddles on.
Another electoral 'youthquake' took place in Poland. The mobilization of women and progressive voters resulted in a record turnout, enough to topple the misogynistic Christians who had been in power for almost ten years. It could set an example for other embattled democracies in Europe.
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3. For a long time it seemed that the war in Ukraine and the climate disaster were the horror stories that would define the year 2023. And then, one Saturday morning, there was a new war and it was as if the other one no longer mattered. If Russian and Ukrainian men were being sacrificed in vain - and out of sight - they were even more so after October 7th. The news cycle had moved on, an even greater evil was upon us.
When Palestinian fighters punched holes in the perimeter fence between Gaza and Israel they found that no one was watching the border. It was a public holiday and there was a rave going on at the Israeli side. The little Palestinian blitzkrieg turned into an indiscriminate bloodbath, a proper matanza, before the IDF could mount a response.
Assuming that Hamas had intended to humiliate Israel and provoke it into righteous retaliation, it got what it wanted. Israel took the bait, declared war, walked into the trap, guns blazing, levelling large parts of Gaza with unquestioning support from the US, at least in the first few days of biblical fury. "This is a time for war," said Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister.
But the cat had trouble finding the mice. They had too many holes to hide in. Worse, rather than eradicate the mice, the cat had to negotiate with them for the release of (some) hostages.
Hamas must have known what the tidal wave of Israeli revenge would look like on billions of mobile screens and in the global court of public opinion. It was a propaganda war that Israel and its allies could not hope to win: the visuals were bad, the civilian suffering unbearable, the narratives didn't work (targeting ambulances and hospitals, using AI to direct bombing raids, the cornered Palestinian population being pushed around…). It became all too easy to slot the destruction of Gaza into a west-against-the-rest narrative of another American proxy war.
Bigger demons were suddenly re-awakening, like pan-Arabic or pan-Islamic solidarity with the Palestinians, as well as generic, vicious antisemitism. Opinions polarized in a flash and nuance was thrown overboard. Facts were sacrificed to ideology.
The war in Gaza would play into the hands of Russia, Iran, China, Saudi, Turkey, etc. In other words, below the rubble of Gaza lay not just endless tunnels and hideaways full of militants committed to the destruction of Israel, but a new outline of WW III.
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4. China's real estate bubble continued to pop audibly in 2023, dragging down the economy as a whole. That must have weighed on the mood in Beijing, perhaps explaining a few conciliatory signs towards the USA. When Henry Kissinger, Richard Nixon's secretary of State, made a valedictory visit to the People's Republic in July, he was welcomed by a broadly smiling Xi Jinping. Kissinger died a few months later at the age of 100. (Screengrab, Xinhuanet)
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5. A note of British jollity to end the year, a reminder of the seventies when the London newspapers were owned by larger-than-life media moguls like Robert Maxwell, Roy (Baron) Thomson, Lord Black or, of course, Rupert Murdoch. It was a different world. The first iPhone was more than thirty years away and Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express was still selling millions of copies a day.
Fleet Street is a thing of the past now, but its final chapters are still being written: Murdoch's succession; the fall of Maxwell's once-glittering daughter Ghislaine; the ownership of The Daily Telegraph.
And some people are still suing the papers for libel, an old Anglo habit and part of the media fun.
As we all know, Sir James Dyson made his fortune from plastic vacuum cleaners before moving on to the efficient hand dryers that are found in shopping malls and airports all over the world.
During the Brexit referendum Dyson supported Vote Leave, leading to accusations of "staggering hypocrisy" when he subsequently moved his corporate head office to Singapore.
A column in the London Daily Mirror, dated January 28, 2022, suggested Dyson had sent the wrong message to British children. The journalist, Brian Reade, put it like this: "In other words, kids, talk the talk, then screw your country, and if anyone complains tell them to suck it up."
Sir James thought the article 'highly distressing and hurtful' and sued for libel. Ruling on the claim on December 1, London's High Court found that the article constituted no more than a reasonable 'expression of opinion' and that "the line 'screwed the country' was merely Reade's take 'how people would or might envisage Dyson's actions."
Dyson had also failed to demonstrate that he had suffered any financial loss because of the article, a requirement under British libel law.
The case was dismissed.
Should you have some downtime during the Christmas season, you can read the full verdict here:
Sir James Dyson v MGN Limited
[2023] EWHC 3092 (KB)
https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/kb/2023/3092
Happy Holidays!
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In 2020, electric vehicles accounted for 5% of all new car sales in China. In 2021, the proportion had shot up to 13%, blowing every forecast out of the water. For 2022, electric cars are on track to hit more than a quarter of all car sales. “We have reached a point where we’re competing on price, we’re competing on features. It’s not a subsidy thing. The market is taking over.” Exponential View.
In Germany, electric cars aren't the future. They're the present. Plugin vehicles hit 28% market share in August, and Tesla isn't even in the top five brands by overall sales. The most registered passenger electric car in Germany so far this year? The Fiat 500 electric. Clean Technica
Can Europe decarbonize its heavy industry? The answer, increasingly, seems to be yes, thanks to tougher emissions targets, rising carbon prices, changing consumer demand and most importantly, low carbon technologies coming of age. More than 70 projects across the continent are now commercializing decarbonization in basic-materials industries. Economist
Ford's electric vehicle sales tripled in September, driving an increase of 16% in overall deliveries in the latest quarter. The company's increased the price of the electric F-15o twice in the last month. Also, responding to 'overwhelming demand,' the EPA is nearly doubling the money available to states to buy electric models of the iconic yellow school buses that millions of children ride every day.
New York is following in California’s footsteps with a new regulation that requires all new passenger cars, pickup trucks, and SUVs to be zero emissions by 2035. Oh, and electric vehicle charging sites now outnumber petrol stations in Manhattan by ten to one, and are fast approaching parity across all five boroughs.
Another week, another electric plane. Or how about two? Swedish company Heart Aerospace has unveiled its ES-30, a regional hybrid-electric plane with a capacity of 30 passengers, and in Washington, US startup Eviation has completed the first test flight of its nine-passenger prototype. “It’s an opportunity to build the future of aviation. It’s revolutionary.”
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Fiat CR42 Falco on static display at the Flying Legends Airshow at Duxford, UK
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(1097x728) Un Fiat CR-32 Chirri veterano de la guerra civil, ya con las escarapelas bicolores del Ejército del Aire en sus alas (1940). Foto Juan Antonio Guerrero.
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